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JULY 24, 2023

” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” Are you targeting desktop, tablet, or mobile? Most new sites need to account for mobile delivery – but on the other hand, not every MVP needs both desktop and mobile versions. Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 20, 2012

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 -- Mobile Marketing. There's been a lot of excitement in the mobile advertising space lately as recent announcements from Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple, etc. The mobile phone is the perfect platform for marketers to engage consumers wherever they may be. See [link] (more)

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APRIL 6, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has extended its Pluck social media platform to mobile devices, the company said today. Pluck is used by brands to create communities.

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MAY 19, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking service MySpace is looking to attract mobile developers, saying today that it has released a new SDK which will allow developers to integrate the site into mobile applications. Tags: myspace mobile development developer software android google apple iphone. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2010

The analysts at Morgan Stanley have produced a report that’s quite good reading on some of the major trends concerning mobile web. More than Mobile Internet I think they had trouble coming up with a name and settled for Mobile Internet even though it isn’t a great choice. Those things likely are not mobile.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

What does the world have in store for the mobile games market, and how do mobile games developers look at the world? Tell us about Mobile Deluxe and the types of games you develop? Josh Hartwell: We do premium casual games for mobile devices. Talk about how you went from JAMDAT to Mobile Deluxe?

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MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile games aimed at women, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The startup, led by Jill Wilson, says it is developing "lifestyle gaming" titles, which run on such platforms as Apple's iOS and Google Android. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

You provide the free app in the App Store that gives subscribers mobile access to your service. After this connection, you need not share the 30% of all revenue collected by the store platform. Make your app support all platforms. Port every app to all the popular platforms – IOS and Android. Be aggressive and alert.

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OCTOBER 13, 2011

Los Angeles-based AdColony , the mobile video ad network operated by Jirbo, said Wednesday that it has launched a new, self-serve HD video ad platform targeted at mobile devices. Jirbo said its version of AdColony Express for Google Android is in private beta. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Venice, California-based Robin Games , a startup that is developing mobile lifestyle games aimed at women and others, has raised $7M in a seed funding round, the company said on Thursday. The startup, led by Jill Wilson, says it is developing "lifestyle gaming" titles, which run on such platforms as Apple's iOS and Google Android.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 25, 2011

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 -- LA Web/Mobile Software Entrepreneurs. Special keynote by Eytan Elbaz, current co-founder of Scopely, a social engagement platform, and formerly VP and founder of Applied Semantics, which was acquired by Google. See [link] (more)

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly is developing mobile advertising tools for the Apple iPhone and Google Android platforms, which allows application developers to manage and optimize their advertising inventory. Tags: rifkin evan advertising mobile capital venture burstly. The funding round came from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Hypothesis : users of every major computing platform have come to consider each platform indispensable for their daily activities in both consumer and enterprise contexts. Let’s examine each of the major computing platforms to understand this assertion: Desktops. The killer app that drove desktop PC adoption was Excel.

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MAY 15, 2014

Los Angeles-based ChowNow said this morning that it has updated its online ordering platform for restaurant, launching a new, version 2.0 The company--led by Christopher Webb--develops a service for restaurants which lets them accept online orders through their own, branded mobile apps, Facebook, and a restaurant''s own websites.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 30, 2011

Google, they’ve cracked a nut here. With Wave being an experiment, and Buzz being a dead duck from the get go, Google Plus (Google+) is actually a usable, integrated, complete-feeling product released this week, and it’s pretty damn good. Now, there’s Google+. Mobile (7:25 PST). Easy (7:09 PST).

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JANUARY 29, 2015

In the mobile age, what is the key to connecting and engaging with users, and where does Hollywood''s creative content fit into the mix? According to LA mobile game maker Seriously (www.seriously.com), mobile games are the best way to engage with the mobile generation. We''ve got a situation in the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2022

Spend your time and money on other platforms. Pick the right platform for your business. Within each of the platform categories defined above, there is a right one and a wrong one for your audience. Get familiar with current social media tools, such as Google Analytics, Kissmetrics, and HootSuite analytics.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The goal of the combined entity is to provide a leading data platform. Palo Alto, CA-based Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR ) and Santa Clara, CA-based Hortonworks (NASDAQ: HDP ) said they expect the merger to close during the first quarter of 2019 if it passes an antitrust review. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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MAY 19, 2014

San Diego-based SweetLabs , the app install platform developer headed by Darrius Thompson, said last week that it has launched a new app install platform aimed at Android devices. SweetLabs said its new App Install Platform is targeted at Android and Windows device manufacturers, to replace their old app, preload model.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

In what looks to be a full circle, San Diego-based SweetLabs said it is bringing its app recommendation and discovery platform, Pokki, to Android and other operating systems. Pokki was originally launched as a way to provide a mobile app-like experience on the desktop. sweetlabs android recommendation discovery mobile pokki software'

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Scribd’s document uploading and sharing platform is making us all self-publishers and adding information to the Internet at a vast and expedited level. Today, several months later from our first meeting in Maui, Trip was ready to raise the stakes with their mobile app of Scribd, called Float. Isn’t the end goal users?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 9, 2020

“We will offer up our platform to every single gaming platform or mobile developer to plug and play… I would consider us… we’re like the Google Admob for live stream.” . “My plan is to become the avatar solution for all of Unity,” Greene told me earlier. and the work with Dr.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Mock The Vote , the mobile, political satire application developed by Venice-based Laffster , has just launch on Android, giving political news fans another platform to get the latest, humorous take on politics. The Mock The Vote app for Android is available on Google Play; the firm released an iPhone version earlier this year.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2014

Maybe you said Apple or even Google, but I bet Facebook didn''t come to mind. According to the author, 60% of Facebook’s revenue comes from mobile ads, double that of the prior year. As Facebook''s mobile ad revenue attests, marketers are stepping up their "phone based" spending. Quick - name a phone company.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Google has acquired smart home appliance company, Nest Labs for $3.2 Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Google EnergySense. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. ” Nest and Google are not new to each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

It’s enough to drown any business which tries to fight it or ignore it, and it’s an opportunity to ride higher and faster than even the successes of Google and Facebook, for those startups that use it as their driving force. Use internal collaboration platforms, then extend to online customers through your website, blogs, and social media.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

GoMeta develops a mobile platform--currently running on iOS--that allows developers create their own augmented reality apps and worlds. Shapiro was most recently at Google, but also had served at Anybeat, MySpace Music, and founded video site Veoh. The funding came from Mike Jones (Science Inc., READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

Since the first round, we have known that the highest-performance frameworks and platforms have been network-limited by our gigabit Ethernet. Similarly, we expect that some application platforms are better suited for NUMA than others. We are presently looking for a generalist web/mobile developer to expand our team.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies, a developer of embedded communications software for the VoIP market, announced Monday that the firm is showing a new reference design for WiMAX mobile phones. D2 said it is planning on Google Android and Microsoft Windows CE/Mobile platforms in the future. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. Interestingly, they are not including Google Authentication. In the case of Disqus, they’ve provided quite a few – but still have left out others like Google. Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo!

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JANUARY 23, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the customer relationship management and contact management software developer headed by Jon Ferrara, has snagged a high profile hire this morning, hiring former Salesforce Director of Mobile Product Jason McDowall as its new Director of Product. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

Michael has been behind such companies as HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. What was the big news for your company this year?

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JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. Bart Molenda: Close5 is a mobile based app that makes it very simple to buy and sell, in particular in your area. However, classifies have not yet caught up with mobile.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Rachel Payne , the CEO and one of the co-founders of FEM, is a veteran of Google, and is taking her experience there and applying it into the video recommendations and engagement area. Rachel Payne: I was working at Google for about eight years, most recently in global strategic alliances. What is FEM? My other cofounder has a Ph.D.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. The new plaintext test demonstrates the extremely high request routing throughput possible on very high-performance platforms. This new chart type compares frameworks versus their underlying platform (e.g.,

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

“We look at three pillars of our types of apps… casual games, mobile games, and personal tools,” said Maple Media chief executive, Michael Ritter. . Typically production cycles are driven by the rhythms of Google Play and Apple’s app stores. “We see ourselves as a media company,” said Ritter.

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